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• Origin of Life
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  New Evidence That Comets Could Have Seeded Life on Earth

  March 5, 2013 — Scientists have shown that complex molecules can form on icy dust in space, suggesting that comets may have brought these molecules to Earth and seeded the growth of more complex building blocks of ... > full story
• Galaxies
  NASA
  Astrophysics
  Space Telescopes
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Gravitational Telescope Creates Space Invader Mirage

  March 5, 2013 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein's general theory of relativity, ... > full story
• NASA
  Mars
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Solar System
  Astronomy
   
  

  Mars Rover Curiosity's Recovery on Track

  March 5, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by ... > full story
• Nature of Water
  Mars
  Cosmic Rays
  Uranus
  Astronomy
  Sun
   
  

  Working at the Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

  March 4, 2013 — Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense ... > full story
• Saturn
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Space Missions
   
  

  Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit

  March 4, 2013 — A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around ... > full story
• Space Station
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  SpaceX's Dragon Carrying NASA Cargo Resupplies Space Station

  March 3, 2013 — The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery flight was the second contracted resupply ... > full story
• Nebulae
  Stars
  Space Telescopes
  Astrophysics
  Space Exploration
  Galaxies
   
  

  Hubble Observes Glowing, Fiery Shells of Gas

  March 1, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope may look like something from "The Lord of the Rings," but this fiery swirl is actually a planetary nebula known as ESO 456-67. Set against a backdrop of ... > full story
• Space Station
  Space Missions
  Endangered Plants
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
   
  

  Research Rides Dragon to the International Space Station

  March 1, 2013 — A second contracted flight for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station will be twice as nice for researchers working with investigations on the orbiting laboratory. While ... > full story
• Space Probes
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
  Aviation
  Astronomy
   
  

  NASA on Course to Launch Orion Flight Test

  March 1, 2013 — The first spacecraft NASA has designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo era is well on its way to making a flight test next year, agency officials said Wednesday. The mission is ... > full story
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Mars
  Space Missions
  Solar System
  Astronomy
   
  

  Computer Swap on NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity

  February 28, 2013 — The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been ... > full story

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